Ken Garen, CPA, Co-Founder and President, UBCC

TEXT TROUBLE Your iPhone can be HACKED just by receiving a text – how to stay safe Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter 31 Jul 2019, 10:19Updated: 31 Jul 2019, 10:52 SIX iPhone security flaws have been found by Google researchers – and Apple still hasn't fixed one of them. The holes in Apple's iOS software allow hackers access your phone simply by sending you a malware-ridden iMessage. Apple has now fixed five of them The find flies in the face of recent suggestions by Apple that it's the company to turn to if you care about privacy and security. Research was carried out by a team at Project Zero, Google's security research group that tracks down so-called "zero day" vulnerabilities. These bugs are named as such because whoever's in charge of the software has "zero days" to find a solution. They're a valuable tool for hackers and are constantly being hoarded by cyber criminals and intell...

Pentagon issues forceful rebuke of Oracle as debate over massive federal contract turns caustic Aaron Gregg and Jay Greene, The Washington Post  5:14 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has issued an unusually strong rebuke of Oracle over the weekend, accusing the company of employing "poorly-informed and often manipulative speculation" in its efforts to undermine the military's process of awarding a massive 10-year contract for cloud computing technology. The remarks were the latest flash point in the long-running dispute over the bidding process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, a $10 billion contract that would be one of the federal government's most expensive information technology procurements ever. Oracle alleged in a lawsuit that the Defense Department's bidding process has been plagued with potential conflicts of interest and rigged in favor of Amazon's cloud computing business. Oracle's ...

A bionic hand named after Luke Skywalker could help amputees feel again   Morgan Hines , USA TODAY Published 5:34 a.m. ET July 27, 2019     To lose a hand is to lose part of yourself, Gregory Clark, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Utah told USA TODAY. And while prosthetic hands have been in use for thousands of years , there is room for improvement.  Researchers at the University of Utah, with the help of other organizations including Blackrock Microsystems and DEKA, have been on a mission to do just that. They have developed a prosthetic system that will allow patients to regain their sense of touch. "Traditional prosthetic hands lack sensory feedback, which makes them clumsy to control and makes them feel unnatural," said Clark. As a result, the team added sensory feedback to an advanced bionic arm called the LUKE arm. It's named for the robotic arm Luke Skywalker receives in "Th...

Sophie the robot whips up oodles of Singapore noodles AFP Relax News • July 30, 2019 A Singaporean engineering company has built a robot that can serve up a piping hot bowl of laksa, one of the city-state's most well-known dishes, in just 45 seconds. The electric sous-chef, dubbed Sophie by its creators, can blanch noodles, add pre-cooked prawns and ladle spicy coconut soup -- all with minimum spillage, at the rate of around 80 bowls an hour. "It's excellent, I would say there's no difference between the one created by the robot and human," said Paul Yong, a guest at Friday's launch event catered by Orange Clove, which developed the machine with a local engineering company. The robot will let chefs cut down on repetitive tasks and focus on understanding customers' needs, said Tan Tun Lim, the assistant sales director for Orange Clove. Sophie will cut the staffing of the laksa station from two chefs to one, whose main role will be to repleni...

Hacked Highways? Connected Cars Could Gridlock Entire Cities, Study Warns by John Anderer  July 30, 2019 ATLANTA —  Cybersecurity has quickly become a priority for large corporations, businesses, and individuals alike in recent years. It seems like another major data breach is being reported every other week, and personal online accounts are often compromised by malicious actors. Now, a new study out of the Georgia Institute of Technology has found that hackers may soon be able to cause major  traffic  problems in the real world by hacking and stranding internet-connected cars. The study’s authors theorize that hackers would only have to shut down a portion of cars on the road in a busy city like Manhattan during rush hour to completely shut down traffic and gridlock the city. Researchers hope that their findings will spark a more detailed analysis of automotive  cybersecurity , especially moving forward as cars become more and more  high ...

Takes one to know one A new tool uses AI to spot text written by AI Jul 26, 2019 AI algorithms can generate text convincing enough to fool the average human—potentially providing a way to mass-produce fake news, bogus reviews, and phony social accounts. Thankfully, AI can now be used to identify fake text, too. The news:  Researchers from  Harvard University  and the  MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have  developed a new tool  for spotting text that has been generated using AI. Called the Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR), it exploits the fact that AI text generators rely on statistical patterns in text, as opposed to the actual meaning of words and sentences. In other words, the tool can tell if the words you’re reading seem too predictable to have been written by a human hand. The context:  Misinformation is increasingly being automated, and the technology required to generate fake text and imagery  is advancing fast . AI-powered tools ...

Drone makes first commercial delivery in The Bahamas ·           ·          A drone successfully made a commercial delivery in The Bahamas last month traveling more than 50 miles over land and water in 28 minutes. (Volans-i) By  FOX 5 NY Staff Updated  Jul 30 2019 08:13AM EDT NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY)  - A drone made a successful commercial delivery in The Bahamas for the first time last month traveling more than 50 miles over land and water in 28 minutes. The flight on June 18 also marked the first time that a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operated in controlled airspace at an active commercial international airport outside of emergency operations. The drone took off vertically and landed the same way.  Developers hope the on-demand drone service by Volans-i and Fli Drone could signal the start of aerial delivery around the world. The UAV can move perishables, ...

Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralysed patients Ian Sample Science editor   Tue 30 Jul 2019 16.10 EDT Doctors have turned the brain signals for speech into written sentences in a research project that aims to transform how patients with severe disabilities communicate in the future. The breakthrough is the first to demonstrate how the intention to say specific words can be extracted from brain activity and converted into text rapidly enough to keep pace with natural conversation. In its current form, the brain-reading software works only for certain sentences it has been trained on, but scientists believe it is a stepping stone towards a more powerful system that can decode in real time the words a person intends to say. Doctors at the University of California in San Francisco took on the challenge in the hope of creating a product that allows paralysed people to c...

  Everyone; Google is actively rigging their search results….. try searching   google + breitbart  in Bing and Google….. in Bing the following story was the 2 nd one shown while on Google no negative stories were shown…. Try this on  abortion…. Hillary e  …. Google was created to find the most important results for people to choose from and presently 90% of the searches are done using Google… now Google is limiting those choices….if this does not change this would result in the end of democracy.  You cannot know what you do not see.  Demand better. Ken Google Censors Video Exposing Google Allum Bokhari 24 Jun 2019   Google-owned video platform YouTube took down a video from Project Veritas showing a senior employee at the company appearing to admit that the company plans to interfere in the next presidential election to stop Donald Trump. The video, which is still available on the Project Veritas ...

‘Deepfakes’ Trigger a Race to Fight Manipulated Photos and Videos Startups and government agencies are researching ways to combat doctored images ahead of the 2020 election Getting Real and That's a Problem Computer-generated videos are getting more realistic and even harder to detect, as WSJ’s Jason Bellini explains in this video. By   Abigail Summerville July 27, 2019 7:00 am ET Startup companies, government agencies and academics are racing to combat so-called deepfakes, amid fears that doctored videos and photographs will be used to sow discord ahead of  next year’s U.S. presidential election . It is a difficult problem to solve because the technology needed to manipulate images is  advancing rapidly  and getting easier to use, according to experts. And the threat is spreading, as smartphones have made cameras ubiquitous and social media has turned individuals into broadcasters, leaving companies that run those platforms unsure how to ...